"Oh?" Max stopped and turned to look at her and asked "What is it?"

pᴀɴdᴀ nᴏveʟ A faint blush appeared on Leticia's face. While avoiding his gaze, she softly said "...M-My reward."

Max looked at her for a good while. It would be a lie if he said he didn't want to do something when other party was willing, after all, to raise his strength, he had to do it with other woman now that his Lilly wasn't with him.

"Do you really want it?" He sighed inwardly and asked.

"Y-Yes. I want it." Leticia nodded firmly while feeling her heart thumping loudly.

"Let me tell you something first–" Max started to tell her his one and only concern but Leticia cut him off.

"I know you must have someone you already like and I know I'm not comparable to her. Therefore I'm not expecting to become your wife or concubine. So you don't need to worry about it." Leticia said without hesitation. The girl she thought he liked was obviously Flavia who, everyone had seen him with.

"If that's the case..." Saying this he put his arm around her waist and pulled her towards him, sticking her body to his.

"Kya~" Leticia yelped in surprise. She didn't expect him to act as soon as she cleared his doubts.

Max could feel her not too big but soft and springy boobs pressing against his chest. He then used his other arm to gently raise her chin upward to look at him since he was almost a head taller than her.

Leticia obediently raised her head and looked into his mesmerizing sapphire eyes.

Max lowered his head and gently put his lips on hers. Leticia quivered In excitement, she felt her heart flutter in excitement.

He then slowly kissed her upper lip and then lower lip, savouring their sweetness.

Leticia didn't remain passive as she also wanted to enjoy this feeling, so she also moved her lips. For a few minutes, they nibbled each others' lips.

Now Max was getting more and more excited. He used his tongue to pry open her mouth and put it inside. Just as he did, he heard system's sound.

Leticia felt his warm tongue slithering inside her mouth and fighting her tongue for domination. In a few seconds, his tongue subdued her juicy tongue and started sucking on it, turning the simple kiss into a deep french kiss.

Just then, Max started to hear system's sound.

[ +10 Lust Points ]

[ +10 Lust Points ]

...

While kissing her, his not so little brother also became excited and poked her belly through their clothes. Leticia noticed this but she didn't move away as she was feeling ecstatic while kissing him.

Max's hand that was supporting her head now left that place and went on her ass. He squeezed and started rubbing her ass cheeks. Leticia didn't resist one bit and continued kissing him.

Moreover, she was hoping that he would do something more than a kiss to her.

After a kiss that lasted them more than ten minutes, their lips parted.

"Hah! Hah!..." Leticia took deep breaths. Max also did the same. However his hands were still rubbing her back and ass and his little brother had become hard enough to penetrate a rock now.

His lust overwhelmed him. He was just about to rip her clothes and have sex with her right there when he heard a few footsteps from the entrances of the cave, coming closer.

'Tch, they are already here.' Max felt annoyed being interrupted at this moment. He unwillingly let her go but not before giving her ass a tight squeeze.ᴘ.ᴀɴᴅ.ᴀ n.ᴏ.ᴠ.ᴇʟ

Leticia looked at him in confusion. She was sure, after feeling his hard thing poking her constantly, that Max would definitely do the forbidden thing with her.

So, she didn't understand why did he stop. It was clear that she didn't hear the footsteps from the entrance of the cave.

Max, saw her confusion and while holding his lust back, pointed towards the exit of the hall and said "Others are here. They'll reach this place in a moment."

He then whispered "We will continue this when we are alone, of course if you want that is."

Before Leticia could say anything, Haory, Rima and Belén walked from the corridor into the hall.

"Are you guys alright? What happened to the ape?" Rima asked while looking around and not seeing the ape.

"Yeah we are fine and the ape is dead." Max said and took out ape's dead body from his system inventory.

Seeing the ape's dead body, they became excited because now they have one beast core and a body of two-star beast.

Belén was first to notice Leticia's red face and her uneven breathing which didn't seem like was because of fighting.

She then glanced at Max asked while smiling "So we are going to live in this cave righ?"

"Yeah we will live here." Max nodded. After Belén had spoken Rima and Haory also stopped paying attention to ape's dead body and also noticed Leticia's unusual appearance.

Rima smiled at her knowingly which made her blush. Rima then looked at Max and licked her lips, thinking something. Haory, on the other hand, didn't show any reaction and simply focused on the interior of the cave.

He ignored their small interaction and looked at Belén and said. "Belén, how about you make something to sit down and rest for a while. I believe everyone is exhausted now."

Belén nodded and threw five seeds on the ground and casted a spell. Five green flowers sprouted from them and under her control, they grew to three feet height and then spread horizontally, making them look like a bed.

"Can it endure our weight?" Max asked. This bed made from thin green petals didn't seem that it could be used a bed.

Belén smiled and sat down on one of the flower bed, apart from swaying a little, there wasn't any changes to the bed's shape.

After that, everyone rested upon them to recover stamina before sitting in meditation to recover their mana.

When they had completely recovered, it was already noon. But because of the fight earlier and then cultivation, they were hungry. Therefore they grilled ape's mana rich meat as lunch.

"Mm, this meat has such pure mana. If I can eat it for one month, my mana reserves would improve by a lot." Leticia exclaimed after taking a bite of the meat. She had returned to her usual cheerful self.

"With our current strength, if we don't encounter more than one or stronger than initial stage Two-star beast, we can hunt them and eat their meat daily. However this ape should last us more than a week." Belén also commented.

Max was also amazed by after taking a bite. It was even more delicious than the meat he ate in the Garfield manor, even though they only grilled it without any condiments.

"Huh?" Max suddenly exclaimed in surprise because he heard another notification from the system.

[ Ding. +1 Mana Point ]

"What is it?" Rima asked while others also looked at him, worried that something might be wrong.

"It's nothing. I'm also surprised by how rich mana it contains." Max shook his head.

Rima and others nodded and focused on enjoying their meal. Haory looked at him for a few more seconds before also focusing on eating.